Social Media Negatives

It is not odd anymore that social media has a global impact on many people around the world. Social media has helped to connect people anywhere and everywhere around the world. As defined by Merriam Webster dictionary Social media is forms of electronic communication which allow users to create online communities that can share information, personal messages, and many other contents. It created a community and have helped people to stay in touch with each other. Scholars have been one of the biggest contributors to the platform. This essay will dwell on the effect of social media and it's positive and negative on scholars learning ability.

As said above, social media is a medium in which people can interact with their colleges, friend, and

Mainly, communication and social interaction are its biggest benefit. However, there are also its negative attributes that impacted the learning abilities of the scholars.

Sayigh (2013) illustrates that the new media communication has altered the culture and the lifestyle of a scholar. He mentions that its biggest problem is that spending too much time on social media can cause scholar to have a bad performance at school. The main element of poor performance are the internet are the internet addiction, social isolation, and they have picked up some bad behavior with the use of social media.

Cyberbullying is one of the biggest problems that are faced by scholars in their learning process. O'Keeffe et al. (2011) claim that cyberbullying can cause a psychological problem in one’s life. It will demoralize the one’s life and have people constantly abusing their life will create such a stressful environment. Thus, having this problem can create the scholars to be not be focused on

The survey was done with 1,000 scholar involved and was asked by the researcher how and why did social media affected them as scholar in their learning process. With the mean of 2.18 said that social media is the factor that the student spent less time in their school work.

Moreover, as noticed by Raut et al. (2016) that social media have achieved lower grades due to its frequent use by the student. For instance, scholars these days do care about their well-being in the social media platforms, thus making them feel stress about giving out their best and having their absolute best beauty at all time.

Social Media has become one of the biggest part in a scholar’s life. There are many times in which it has done beneficial attributes to one’s life. After looking at both sides of the argument, I think that social media has been more positive than it is negative. It is one of the fastest way of knowing information. Furthermore, it can reach on a global scale, which help in seeing other people’s perspective around the world. An excessive amount of usage would turn horrific, but if you can control and have self-control on the use of it, it can turn out to be